Michael Pollan Quotes

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.

I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

I don't know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

I eat a lot of pizza and really unhealthy food.

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

I love junk food.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

I'm a total junk food-er.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.